Causal Inference
G-computation, inverse probability weighting, and mediation analysis for policy-relevant causal questions in epidemiology.
Learn more →Dr. Juwel Rana is an environmental epidemiologist who earned his PhD in Epidemiology from the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Canada. His research integrates causal inference methods and exposome approaches to investigate how complex environmental, nutritional, and social exposures jointly shape population health and health inequities across the life course. He is the Founder and serves as the Director of Research and Innovation at the South Asian Institute for Social Transformation (SAIST). His path began during undergraduate studies at the University of Dhaka, where he laid the groundwork for what became SAIST, initially taking shape as YRIDB and SAYRID on 15 July 2010, driven by a dedicated group of young researchers. Juwel leads its flagship study, the Bangladesh Longitudinal Child-Adolescent Development, Education, and Environment Study (BLADES) cohort (2021), involving children, adolescents, and their family members from ~2,500 households in Dhaka and Dinajpur districts.
Research Areas
Environmental and Social Exposome
BKMR, WQS, and novel methods for multi-exposure chemical mixture effects on health outcomes.
Learn more →Environmental Global Health
Air pollution, chemical stressors, and their impacts on maternal–child health and non-communicable diseases.
Learn more →Policy Evaluation & Environmental Justice
Evaluating policies and programs with an environmental justice lens — equitable burdens and benefits of environmental risks — alongside applied work on childhood development, birth outcomes, and child mortality in low-resource South Asian settings.
Learn more →- 60+ Peer-reviewed papers
- 3 Institutional affiliations
- 15+ Years of research
- 10+ Countries of collaboration